Finance Data

Head of Finance - Productivity and Analytics Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to lead the Operational Productivity Unit to drive improvements in both productivity and efficiency.
The Operational Productivity Unit is a recently established team within the Finance department tasked with leading the Trust's productivity agenda, supported by data, analytics, and business intelligence. Leading a high performing team of analysts and project managers;
Managing a broad portfolio of productivity and efficiency projects, using business intelligence to provide insights;
Delivering monthly board reports that demonstrate productivity trends and highlight key lines of enquiry, triangulating finance, workforce and activity/operational data; This role is advertised as a 12 month fixed-term contract or secondment.
Responsible for the line management and development of all permanent members of staff within the OPU Team, together with any trainees or staff on secondment to the department. This includes ensuring that training requirements are met and that poor performance is managed.
• To ensure that the team (including yourself) comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act and GDPR with regard to the confidentiality of personal information for both patients and staff.
• Provide specialist training on a range of subjects to financial and non-finance staff throughout the Trust.
• To ensure that NHS accounting principles and relevant technical updates are understood and incorporated into Team's operations.
• To own the policies pertaining to this team and the specialist subject matter, ensuring that they are regularly reviewed and updated.
To develop and embed organisational "buy in" for the shift to a data driven approach to improving services and financial efficiencies.
• Post EPIC, to establish systems, processes and reporting for the Team that provide required outcome to drive performance improvements.
• To ensure that the Team operates efficiently and effectively, providing actionable data and analysis.
• To obtain regular feedback on performance through either formal survey or regular engagement, ensuring that recommendations are assessed and used to the benefit of the Team and the Trust.
• Data Management
• To ensure the integrity of data sources and have a developed technical understanding of the software and systems used.
• To create a culture of continuous improvement within the team, taking internal feedback and using any available resources in the wider sector to ensure that data is managed to the maximum benefit of the Trust.
• To incorporate appropriate checks, balances and controls into procedures, processes and reporting to ensure that data is robust and that any inconsistencies and/or error are identified early and promptly remedied.
• To engage and liaise both internally within the Trust and with external resources to identify information that can best be applied to monitor performance (Including KPI's and benchmarking).
• To support and educate finance and non-finance Teams across the Trust then ensure that data is maintained and managed appropriately across the Trust.
• To promote good data management across the Trust, to identify any areas for data cleansing and/ or improvement.
• To interpret sector wide data collection and methodologies (eg Model Hospital/GIRFT/HFMA/Shelford Group).
• To ensure that any external data and/or national data collection requirements with the NHS are met within set deadlines.
• To be the technical expert within the Trust on the Data and Analytics Team's systems and operational processes.
Analysis
• To analyse significant volumes of data and draw conclusions that can drive operational, performance and financial improvement within the Trust.
• To advise non-financial staff on the need for benefits realisation by understanding the wider financial context of the Trust, ICS and wider sector. To negotiate and influence where there is a conflict between financial benefit and clinical ambition.
• To design/ produce audience appropriate, user friendly reports in a regular and timely fashion that inform users of performance against pre-agreed targets. To receive, understand and link complex financial and non-financial information to draw supported conclusions that can drive performance improvement and/ or deliver savings to the Trust.
• To interpret and present financial and non-financial information to staff with varied levels of financial literacy.
• To educate and support non-financial staff in the interlinkage between operational and financial data.
• To support on the preparation of Business Cases linking capital and revenue investment to the wider Trust savings Programme and challenging against other sources of current information to maximise cost/ benefit to the Trust against potentially completing objectives.
• To identify initiatives that could improve the financial and/ or operational position of the Trust. To lead on the review process for identified initiatives, either through post project appraisal or lessons learned review as appropriate.
• To link within the Finance Directorate, informing and working closely with key deliverables such as Annual Planning, the Cost Improvement Programme and Costing.
To provide support to the Associate Director of Finance - Data and Analytics to undertake other duties as required, which are consistent with the grade and nature of the post.
• Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high-quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
CPD record complying with membership of relative accounting body.
Extensive senior financial management experience.
Evidence of further postgraduate study (eg MBA)

Advises senior budget holders and finance managers over financial performance, persuading them to a certain course of action.
Develops and delivers formal, complex financial presentations (i.e. multi-faceted business cases) to large groups of (often senior) non-finance managers and conveys financial concepts clearly and persuasively.
Develops and delivers formal, complex financial presentations (i.e. multi-faceted business cases) to large groups of (often senior) non-finance managers and conveys financial concepts clearly and persuasively.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of the NHS financial environment.
Understanding of the financial requirements of a Foundation Trusts.
Extensive experience of working with data sets, ideally in a public sector/ NHS setting.
Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now."